You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

I need the protection of seeming weak.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

I am a naturally curious person. -Tris

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.